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for China to empower energy planners, spur bottom-up energy innovation, remove
the barriers to cooperation between the energy industry and enterprises, and redouble
efforts to strengthen the energy management information system and dedicated think
tanks in the energy sector.
Keywords Climate change · China’s energy system · Energy challenges · Recent
trends · Future path · “3+1” energy system integration
1.1 Basic Concepts and Analysis Framework of Energy
Transition Strategy
Energy transition refers to the paradigm shift in the energy system over time as
required by the sustainable development goals. The increasingly severe global climate
change has called for more efficiency in energy transition than ever. Driving this
process not only involves a higher uptake of energy-saving technologies and renewable energy, but also other spheres such as economy, society, and politics, hence a
need to engage the whole society (Singh et al. 2019). In this circumstance, clear
strategic guidance is critical.
For this purpose, this paper proposes the basic concepts of energy transition
strategy and the system analysis framework to examine China’s energy transition
strategy. As per the notion of “sustainability-energy system-social governancemarket operation” (Ma et al. 2018) coined by the author to study the strategy of
regional energy development, energy transition strategy can be perceived as: “a
master plan driving the overall revolution of the energy physical system of a specific
social organization (global or regional) in order to meet the energy challenges of
sustainable development”. The corresponding framework of system analysis is shown
in Fig. 1.1.
In this analytical framework, the energy challenge of sustainable development is
the background and constraints of the energy transition strategy; the strategy is mainly
set by the energy governance system for the energy market system to consciously
observe the principle of sustainable development and enable the transition of the
energy physical system; the energy market system performs actual operations on the
energy physical system, so that the resources input, energy output and emissions of
the energy physical system can move towards the strategic goals of the energy system
transition and sustainable development.
This chapter would revolve around this framework of system analysis and discuss
China’s energy challenge, energy system, energy governance and energy market.
L. Ma et al.
for China to empower energy planners, spur bottom-up energy innovation, remove
the barriers to cooperation between the energy industry and enterprises, and redouble
efforts to strengthen the energy management information system and dedicated think
tanks in the energy sector.
Keywords Climate change · China’s energy system · Energy challenges · Recent
trends · Future path · “3+1” energy system integration
1.1 Basic Concepts and Analysis Framework of Energy
Transition Strategy
Energy transition refers to the paradigm shift in the energy system over time as
required by the sustainable development goals. The increasingly severe global climate
change has called for more efficiency in energy transition than ever. Driving this
process not only involves a higher uptake of energy-saving technologies and renewable energy, but also other spheres such as economy, society, and politics, hence a
need to engage the whole society (Singh et al. 2019). In this circumstance, clear
strategic guidance is critical.
For this purpose, this paper proposes the basic concepts of energy transition
strategy and the system analysis framework to examine China’s energy transition
strategy. As per the notion of “sustainability-energy system-social governancemarket operation” (Ma et al. 2018) coined by the author to study the strategy of
regional energy development, energy transition strategy can be perceived as: “a
master plan driving the overall revolution of the energy physical system of a specific
social organization (global or regional) in order to meet the energy challenges of
sustainable development”. The corresponding framework of system analysis is shown
in Fig. 1.1.
In this analytical framework, the energy challenge of sustainable development is
the background and constraints of the energy transition strategy; the strategy is mainly
set by the energy governance system for the energy market system to consciously
observe the principle of sustainable development and enable the transition of the
energy physical system; the energy market system performs actual operations on the
energy physical system, so that the resources input, energy output and emissions of
the energy physical system can move towards the strategic goals of the energy system
transition and sustainable development.
This chapter would revolve around this framework of system analysis and discuss
China’s energy challenge, energy system, energy governance and energy market.